"Love is all
Unsatisfied
That cannot take the whole
Body and soul";
And that is what Jane said.

"Take the sour
If you take me
I can scoff and lour
And scold for an hour."
"That's certainly the case," said he.

"Naked I lay,
The grass my bed;
Naked and hidden away,
That black day";
And that is what Jane said.

"What can be shown?
What true love be?
All could be [known or shown]1
If Time were but gone."
"That's certainly the case," said he.

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¹ Grill: "shown or known"

Text Authorship:

• by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment", appears in Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems, first published 1932 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Arthur Victor Berger (b. 1912), "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment", published 1950 [ voice, flute, clarinet, and violoncello ], from Three Poems of Yeats [sung text not yet checked]
• by Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgement", 1999, copyright © 2000 [ soprano, flute, violin, viola, cello and piano ], from Crazy Jane Sings, no. 3, confirmed with an online score [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Patrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley (1899 - 1973), "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgement", 1958 [ soprano and harp ], from Crazy Jane, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by David Lidov (b. 1941), "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment", 1967, rev. 1970 [ voice and piano ], from Crazy Jane's songs [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paul Paviour (b. 1931), "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment", copyright © 1969 [ soprano and piano ], from Crazy Jane, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

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